The weirdest of weird first dates. Youtube is filled with short films of all types of genres shot on less than shoe string budgets. I have been watching more than a few lately. The quality is all over the lot, but I have been surprised by how much I have enjoyed most of them. They remind me of the Hollywood shorts that played in movie theaters between B pictures and the main features back in the Golden Age of Hollywood before my time. There are religious short films and they range from inspiring to insipid. One of the better ones:
Catholic apologetics should be hitting this area of short films on the internet hard. As much attention should be paid to quality as to good intentions.
Bonus:
A good short film on the history of chess:
Thank you Don I enjoyed this. You must watch The Queens Gambit- screening in Netflix, if you haven’t already.
Saw it Ezabelle. I have always been fascinated by chess, although I am a rather poor player. I tend to be a bit too daring in my moves.
Thank you for promoting The Veil Removed. I got a little choked up.
The Veil video illustrates how I imagine the Mass each time I attend. What a powerful video.
Our Priest at Our Lady of Grace – Father Kirby – showed the Veil Removed a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic. It always chokes me up.
I’m waiting for Philip’s take on Future Boyfriend since he works with the elderly. The film is sweet and funny at the same time. The spaghetti meatball scene made me laugh and brought back memories of visiting my mother’s dear friend, 99, at St.Therese. When invited to stay for dinner at her table I always asked the ladies first if I could help cut the chicken or whatever.
The Veil Removed is wonderful and powerful. Thank you.
My friend and I both had a guardian angel moment at the same time although she is in ID and I in VA. In the middle of the night on her birthday 02/12 we both smelled gas and smoke alarms went off at the same time. Seems her propane tank was dry. Still haven’t figured out why in my house an old smoke alarm on the small bedroom mantel went off and not the new one on the ceiling.
“Future Boyfriend” – great little story.
If we’re lucky, we can see ourselves in that future time, in that future place, where time stands still, the world is reduced to just a few quiet rooms, a few sympathetic faces, and live our active present accordingly … as these two do. Take chances. Live “dangerously”. Take it to the edge. Unconstrained by expectations.
The best things that ever happened to me in life involved taking risks and extending myself without fully knowing or controlling outcomes.
Go for it. Your future self will be glad you did.
One of my favorite short films
Road Rage